Photo: NatFee · CC BY-SA 4.0Unemployment in Bartonville (1.1%) is lower than in 94% of U.S. towns
Working from home is the commute for 9% of workers, against 16% across Illinois. For jobs and income Bartonville is better than 80% of U.S. towns (A−); for walkability it is more walkable than 48% of U.S. towns (B−). About one in ten work in Bartonville itself; outside it, Peoria draws the most (33%, 8 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Bartonville
Bartonville trades workers with the towns around it
Bartonville has about as many jobs (2,976) as working residents (2,573), but they are mostly different people: 2,344 residents leave for work each day while 2,747 people come in. Only 8% of the jobs in Bartonville are held by people who live here. Day and night ↓
Bartonville and Peoria trade workers both ways
Peoria is the top workplace for Bartonville residents (33%) and also where the most people who work in Bartonville come from (17% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Commutes from Bartonville are quick
The average trip to work takes 20 minutes, against 28 across Illinois. That’s about 61 hours a year less on the road than the typical Illinois worker. Time on the road ↓
Bartonville makes and builds things
44% of the jobs based in Bartonville are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Bartonville residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 21%. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey.
Jobs & income in Bartonville: the grade in detail
Unemployment holds Bartonville’s grade up; household income pulls it down ($72,821, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on the poverty rate and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Bartonville could be anywhere from B to A.
The workday shuffle in and out of Bartonville
On a workday 2,344 residents head out to work, 229 work right here, and 2,747 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.16 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
The towns that employ Bartonville’s residents
Where Bartonville clocks in
Lines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Getting to work from Bartonville takes about 20 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Bartonville workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,703 commuters (the 9% who work from home are left out). Across Illinois: 78% drive alone, 7% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Factories, building and farms: 44% of the jobs in Bartonville
2,976 jobs are based in Bartonville.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Bartonville, 2013 → 2023: 3,895 → 2,976. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Bartonville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The commute from Bartonville, by distance
About 22% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Most trips from Bartonville start in a car
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 10.8% across Illinois.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 2,969 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 42% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 5.0% of Bartonville households have no vehicle (Illinois 11.0%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Bartonville’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Bartonville is 778th of 3,375 U.S. towns of 4,100 to 7,800
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 13 | South Barrington IL | 5,071 | $222K | 1.0% | 2.0% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 37 | Northfield IL | 5,632 | $162K | 3.2% | 2.2% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 72 | Grandwood Park IL | 5,262 | $127K | 2.8% | 2.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 776 | Apple Valley OH | 5,548 | $101K | 3.9% | 1.0% | 3% | A− |
| 777 | Mount Zion IL | 5,880 | $103K | 4.0% | 3.4% | 9% | A− |
| 778 | Bartonville IL | 5,804 | $73K | 7.1% | 1.1% | 9% | A− |
| 779 | Thornbury Township PA | 6,965 | $192K | 5.3% | 7.0% | 4% | A− |
| 780 | Orland Hills IL | 6,663 | $122K | 6.4% | 6.1% | 2% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,375 | Medina TX | 4,226 | $22K | 53.8% | 10.1% | 4% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Bartonville, the top three, the last and three more from Illinois.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Bartonville: questions
What is the median household income in Bartonville?
$72,821 (±$9,553) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Bartonville?
7.1%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Bartonville?
20 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Bartonville work?
9% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Peoria (33%, 8 mi), East Peoria (5%, 6 mi), Limestone Township (5%, 2 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Bartonville walkable?
Bartonville is more walkable than 48% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 7.4 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Bartonville without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Bartonville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bartonville
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.